It is worth remembering what now presidential contender and then U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson said on behalf of the Clinton administration when he cast the veto: that the United States shared the concerns expressed about the decision of the Israeli Government to begin construction on the East Jerusalem site, but it disagreed on the best method of addressing the situation. Some 15 years after Oslo and the so-called peace process, and the Clintonian decision that the parties should negotiate their differences, the illegal settlement is up, running and expanding in defiance of the latest pledges from the Israeli government to their American sponsors, who are still pushing the Palestinians into negotiations with no legal preconditions.
During his current visit to the Middle East, Canada's Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier was asked about Israel's expansion of construction at Har Homa, in the West Bank near Jerusalem. While he said that expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank is "contrary to the peace process," he pointedly refused to comment on Har Homa. Israel claims that its expansion there is justified because it considers it a suburb of Jerusalem. Even though the United States has criticized the new construction, Bernier has refused to comment. According to Toronto Globe and Mail correspondent Mark MacKinnon, who reported from Har Homa, "Mr. Bernier appeared to have made Canadian foreign policy the most proIsraeli in the world." Canada's position is a shift from 1997, when the country was one of 134 voting ...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank - Hani Hayek, an accountant who is the Christian mayor of the tiny Christian-majority Palestinian village of Beit Sahour, was angry last week driving me along the Israeli security wall. "They are taking our communal lands," he said, pointing to the massive Israeli settlement of Har Homa. "They don't want us to live here. They want us to leave. Har Homa, dwarfing nearby dwellings of Beit Sahour, seemed larger than when I saw it at Holy Week a year ago. It is. The Israeli government has steadily enlarged settlements on the occupied West Bank, and I could see both the construction at Har Homa and road building for a dual transportation system for Israelis and Palestinians.
The face-value defects of this proposed bill are numerous. For one, the Congressmen's aides reportedly admit that the proposal was largely derived from consultations with a senior advisor to Israel's right wing, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with Israeli academic Justus Weiner, who has dedicated a significant portion of his career to the character assassination of Columbia University's Edward Said, a Palestinian Christian by birth. Moreover, "the systematic destruction" (the Congressmen's words) of Palestine's Christian communities at the hands of the Palestinian Authority is a falsehood as it stands. The vast majority of Christian organizations in the Bethlehem District, home to the largest number of Christians in the West Bank or Gaza, have attested to this through p...
...-only settlements like GiIo, Har-Gilo, Har Homa and Givat Hamatos; or for future illegal construct...
JERUSALEM Israeli and Palestinian negotiators on Wednesday launched their first full-fledged peace talks since 2001, but the session was marred by tensions over an Israeli construction project in East Jerusalem and fresh rocket attacks by Palestinian militants based in the Gaza Strip. Israel's plans to build 300 new homes in a neighborhood it calls Har Homa have drawn denunciations from Palestinian officials and prompted calls to boycott Wednesday's formal start of a promised yearlong effort to reach a peace agreement.
This is a very serious matter," said [Sami Khoury], speculating that Israeli authorities "did it on purpose" so that the land could be seized without protest or legal opposition. He said he and his clients would appeal the case to the Supreme Court and demand an investigation of the failure to notify. "Artas will have a new Nakba [disaster] if this ruling is implemented," said [Hamdi Ayesh], using the term Palestinians use to describe the mass expulsions of 1948. He pointed out that if [Efrat] is expanded, the settlement will encroach on the town itself. Hamdi Ayesh, the head of the local council in Artas, is also aware of this political situation. He said he is "not optimistic" about the coming Israeli government. He noted that when Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu ...
... is now the location of the settlement of Har Homa. Copyright Arab American News Feb 28-Mar 6, 2009Pr...
THE revived Israeli-Palestinian peace process could get derailed at the starting gate unless President George W. Bush acts quickly to put it back on track. Bush, who pledged to become actively involved in the process after a seven-year hiatus, must persuade Israel to give up its wrongheaded plan to enlarge a Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem. Last week, Israel announced it was inviting bids for more than 300 housing units to expand the Har Homa settlement. That infuriated Palestinian negotiators, with good reason.
It's guaranteed, however, that all these groups will offer a different and much more compelling vision than that offered by the Israeli office of tourism, which trundles travelers from West Jerusalem to the "Bethlehem" gift shops of the Har Homa settlement-all the time warning that it's too dangerous to wander or talk to strangers. Supported by Church World Service and the National Council of Churches, this international initiative of the World Council of Churches places teams of participants in key places in the West Bank and Jerusalem to support Palestinians and Israelis in nonviolent actions and concerted advocacy efforts to end the occupation. Participants will meet teaching colleagues in a range of Palestinian and Israeli schools, visit sites of historical, religious and cultural...
...Look, for example, in the past, the Har Homa incident, quite clearly that was something that wa...
RAMALLAH, West Bank - The Palestinians now have their own version of a WikiLeaks scandal. President Mahmoud Abbas and his aides went on the attack Monday, accusing Al-Jazeera television of lies and distortions in publishing the so-called "Palestine Papers," which claim that Palestinian negotiators were ready to make significant concessions for a peace deal with Israel.
... in Jerusalem except Jabal Abu Ghneim (Har Homa)," Qureia is quoted as saying. "This is the first ...
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